Category: Rants

Can’t win for losing

A friend invited me to Chicago with her next weekend. I declined because I’m a little on the broke side right now — I just had to pay that $350 in car repairs, plus I’ve got balances I owe on doctor’s bill that the insurance didn’t cover. Plus, every spare cent I have is going into my “Visit Emily” fund, so I wasn’t about to take out a big chunk of the tiny savings I have for that trip already. It would’ve been fun, I haven’t traveled with her in quite a while, but my finances just wouldn’t allow it.

I had a doctor’s appointment this morning, to try and find out what’s going on with these chronic migraines I’ve been having. Sure, the meds I’m on work, but @ $90 a month for meds JUST for migraines is a little too much. I’d rather find out what’s causing them and treat that, instead of treating just the migraines. So. I came into work this morning, and my car acted slightly funny when I started it, but after that it was fine. About 20 minutes ago, I got in the car to leave for my doctor’s appointment. Car won’t start. Won’t even attempt to turn over. Nada zip zilch nothing.

I’m PRAYING it has something to do with the new stereo that my brother installed; maybe it was wired wrong and drained the battery. With my luck, though, it’ll be the alternator. I can’t afford more damn car repairs. :-\

ETA: I called a local Autozone by my house to find out if there was a charge for testing the battery. The conversation went something like this:

Me: Hi, I’d like to know if you charge to test batteries for bad cells?
Clerk: Yes
Me: How much is it?
Clerk: It’s free. We test them for free.
Me: (surpressing giggles) Okay, thank you!

Baby write this down, take a little note

My email has gone nuts. My host has been having some massive issues for the last two weeks. (First time they have since I’ve had service with them.) Currently, I can send emails from my webmail account – but I can’t receive them. Kind of. The webmail portal itself doesn’t update to show any new or received mail. But if I have that email address also forward to a different account not hosted with them (say, my old hotmail account), the emails show up there. So I don’t show receiving any mail in webmail, but I actually do get it at hotmail. At least I know the auto-forwarder is working? I logged a ticket with them last night. Getting tired of waiting – I want my normal email back! It’s REALLY starting to piss me off. Not too long ago I was bragging about how good my service is via that host — and now boom. Absolute crap.

And on a completely random note – I actually dislike the song that gave me the title of this post. It’s from “Write This Down” by George Strait. Why do I dislike it? Check out the lyrics for the song. He’s upset that he’s losing his girlfriend/wife/whatever; yet he treats her like a damn secretary. If he wants her to have in writing how much he loves her — wouldn’t it mean more if HE wrote it down, instead of dictating for her to do it herself? If he’s that lazy that he can’t write down a few words, he’s probably pretty lazy in every aspect. No wonder she’s leaving him, he probably expects her to do everything. That’s one of those songs I’m just never going to understand the appeal of, I’m sure.

Just enough money for my gas and oil

I took my car into the dealership on Saturday for an oil change, only to discover that my oil pan is badly beat up and needs to be replaced. I can honestly say I do not recall ever bottoming out in my car – so I’m not really sure how that happened (unless it happened while the dealership had it to do body work after my accidents). The dealership was going to charge us almost TWICE what my local/normal mechanic would charge, so we made arrangements to take it up there to have the work done.

Because of crazy schedules at the moment, we weren’t able to leave my car up there until after close of business yesterday. The guy I spoke with said the car would be fine outside, and that I could toss my keys up under a small hole in the bay door for them to find in the morning.

I called there this morning to check and make sure they found the keys, and Kirby answered. His response was “Yeah, we found the keys – but not your car.” Hahah. But, all kidding aside, he said it’d be done tonight. Good. I’ve had my new radio installed for 4 days now and I’ve barely been able to use it! 😉

And, something completely unrelated…I hate when people don’t follow rules; esp when they’re the ones who make them. Bank of America was here today, and they did a drawing at 3:00pm to win free money. The email about the promotion today said “must be present to win”. They picked a name, he wasn’t present, they decide to try to call him. The large crowd in the lobby starts booing and hissing, of course. We all point out that it said “must be PRESENT”. She’s all “oh, well, he has to be in the building”. He wasn’t at his desk either. So we’re all still trying to get her to draw another name.

By pure chance, the winner guy is spotted in the parking garage right then, walking towards the building. We all point out he is NOT in the building. She doesn’t care, and allows him to still be the winner. Um… she just said that “must be present” meant “in the building”. He was NOT present and he was NOT in the building – that sounds like he completely doesn’t qualify to me. As many people vocalized, if we had all known that we didn’t have to “be present”, we would’ve stayed at our desks, since we all had work to do. The only reason we were down there was because it said “must be present.”

Gee. And the point of BoA being here today was to get us to switch to their bank. If they keep changing rules like that for a simple promotion – who’s to say they won’t do similar crap to my bank account? That inspires zero confidence in them to me. In fact, I think I did bank with them once upon a time, and they jerked me around. I sure won’t be leaving my bank for them.